Far-Left journalist Jonathan Alter suggested on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show that maybe the United States should release some of the “Hundreds-of-thousands of people incarcerated” across the United States in response to the death of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela.

No. He actually said it.

Apparently, the spirit of “forgiveness” shown by Mandela toward his captors once he was released from prison means we ought to release many of the people imprisoned across the U.S. No, you’re not crazy if you don’t see how the one has anything to do with the other.